Executive Editor Wesley Lowery continues speaking about his new bestseller, “American Whitelash,” at libraries and bookstores around the country. Here’s a look at upcoming summer events: • Aug. 3: Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, is hostinga Zoom webinar; it’s a ticketed event and you’ll get an email confirmation for the link to finish your registration. A recording of …
Reporting, research aids story development The Washington Post was awarded three Pulitzers this week, for national reporting on abortion; for feature writing about post-pandemic America; and for a biography of George Floyd in the category of best general nonfiction. The Post also was honored to have five entries announced as Pulitzer finalists. Former students Vanessa Montalbano, McKenzie Beard, Megan Ruggles and Carley Welch researched hundreds of court cases as part of their …
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The Center for Public Integrity will steward and grow a powerful tool that puts public records at the fingertips of journalists across the country, thanks to support from the Reva and David Logan Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Accountability Project, launched by the Investigative Reporting Workshop in 2019, is …
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The Data Liberation Project recently launched, making government data more available and useful for the general public. Jeremy Singer-Vine, a data journalist who formerly worked as a data editor for eight years at Buzzfeed News, rolled out the new website earlier this fall as a result of his own frustrations as a data journalist. After …
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An increasing number of U.S. adults get their news from TikTok, a new Pew Research Center study found. Nearly every social media site experienced either a decline or stagnation in its share of users who regularly get news there since 2020 — except TikTok, which saw an increase. Thirty-three percent of TikTok users said they …
Today IRW and the School of Communication at American University will honor Charles Lewis and his distinguished career. He retires from the faculty Dec. 31 and will remain at IRW as emeritus executive editor. Lewis, a tenured professor, joined the university in 2006 and created the Investigative Reporting Workshop in 2008. IRW began publishing in the spring …
Christina Lee MacGillivray interned at IRW while working on a master’s degree in journalism at NYU. She recently talked with managing editor Lynne Perri about her work in human rights and how her storytelling skills have grown. How has your international work in human rights influenced your journalism? Or how have your journalism skills enhanced …
In an industry in which coverage of labor concerns often overlaps with personal worries about wages and benefits, journalists are increasingly turning to unions at news outlets nationwide. About one-in-six U.S. journalists at news outlets are part of a union, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The survey suggests, too, that unions are …
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Michael Kirk has watched the Hartford Courant wither for years. When Kirk worked in Washington, D.C., more than 20 years ago, he remembered several Courant reporters covering Connecticut’s lawmakers from the nation’s capital. Less than a decade later, management at Tribune, Courant’s parent company, closed that bureau. Today, Alden Global Capital owns Tribune, putting the …
Nearly 70% of journalists say Twitter is the platform that tops their list for work-related tasks, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. But most Americans prefer Facebook for their news fix.
Two years after going live, TAP hits a major milestone.
Investigating Power is a history of breakthrough investigations that revealed news and changed the national narrative on many major topics since the 1950s, from war to health to civil rights.
An interactive timeline following President Biden’s actions on immigration.
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets.
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